Book ID: CBB963886291

The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West (2019)

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Ross, John F. (Author)


Penguin Books


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 416
Language: English

A timely, thrilling account of the explorer who dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon—and waged a bitterly-contested campaign for sustainability in the West.John Wesley Powell’s first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869 counts among the most dramatic chapters in American exploration history. When the Canyon spit out the surviving members of the expedition—starving, battered, and nearly naked—they had accomplished what others thought impossible and finished the exploration of continental America that Lewis and Clark had begun almost 70 years before. With The Promise of the Grand Canyon, John F. Ross tells how that perilous expedition launched the one-armed Civil War hero on the path to becoming the nation’s foremost proponent of environmental sustainability and a powerful, if controversial, visionary for the development of the American West. So much of what he preached—most broadly about land and water stewardship—remains prophetically to the point today.

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Review Sara Porterfield (July 2019) Review of "The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West". Environmental History (pp. 627-629). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
John Taliaferro
Lunde, Darrin
Anita Huizar-Hernández
McPherson, Robert S.
Avery, Shane Patrick
Liebenberg, Elri
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Conservation movement
Biographies
Natural history
Surveys
Conservation of natural resources
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Western states (U.S.)
Arizona (U.S.)
Colorado River (North America)
Colorado (U.S.)
Southern states (U.S.)
Institutions
Grand Canyon National Park
Adirondack State Park
Yellowstone National Park
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